Cripe’s notes were written sometime around October 1993, the time when Cripe completed Top Hat and Eagle.  Hal Hammer sat with Cripe with each guitar [...]

Listening for the sound: For Steve Kimock Cripe Experience on YouTube   Jim Overton recommends: Bronx Experiment:  1/19/2006  Grey Eagle, Asheville Elmer’s Revenge: 3/6/2003   Orange [...]

Rob Bienstock - In memory of Stephen Ray Cripe. R.I.P. 1996 "St. Stephen will remain, all he lost he shall regain. " I first met Stephen [...]

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As it would happen, the Garcia connection to Cripe guitars would continue well past the loss of both musician and luthier in the hands of [...]

Steve’s friend Adam Palow, a fellow craftsman (albeit of amplifiers), would visit Trilby a few weeks after the accident. Guitars had been finished, partially finished [...]

  Hal Hammer, a guitarist, wood-joiner and luthier with credentials sufficient to have made guitars for at least one rock god (Keith Richards), recalls meeting [...]

With Pete and Helen Cripe aging into their golden years, Cripe chose to relocate from Miami north of Tampa Bay to be closer his parents. [...]

Only a few months had passed since Steve Cripe got the crazy notion of building an instrument for the hippie master on another coast. And [...]

As any wood-joining luthier well knows, the quality of the source materials, both in a physical and often spiritual sense, affects the resonance of the [...]